Wisconsin Workers' Comp Settlement Calculator
Estimate a workers' comp settlement under Wisconsin law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own benefit rate and weekly maximum, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Wisconsin pays, and when you must act
Workers' compensation pays a share of your wage while you cannot work, whoever was at fault, up to a weekly maximum the state sets. Two deadlines run from the injury: one for reporting it and one for filing the claim. Here is what we hold for this state.
Wisconsin caps permanent partial disability far below its temporary total, permanent total and death maximum, and the two rates move on different dates. The headline figure took effect January 1, 2026 and the permanent partial figure on April 1, 2026; both run to December 31, 2026.
Wis. Stat. § 102.11·Last reviewed 2026-07-28
§ 102.12·Last reviewed 2026-08-09
“A compromise of any claim for compensation may be reviewed and set aside, modified, or confirmed by the department within one year after the date on which the compromise is filed with the department, the date on which an award has been entered based on the compromise, or the date on which an application for the department to take any of those actions is filed with the department.”
Wis. Stat. § 102.16(1)(b)·Last reviewed 2026-10-07
What Wisconsin pays at different wages
The weekly benefit the calculator above pays at six average weekly wages, and what that comes to over 12 weeks out of work. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these claims are worth.
Temporary total disability only, run through the calculator above at each wage: no medical costs, no permanent impairment, no waiting period or limit on the number of weeks, and one rate for every week, so a different rate the state sets for part of a claim (see the note under the maximum) is not applied. Below a wage of about $2,063 a week the benefit is 66.67% of the wage; above it, Wisconsin's maximum of $1,375 sets the benefit instead. These wages illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your claim.
Every Wisconsin deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Wisconsin periods in our verified data, with the statute behind each one. A deadline is the outside limit, never a target, and other rules can shorten it.
Wis. Stat. § 893.54·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorWis. Stat. § 893.55(1m)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorWis. Stat. § 893.54(1m) reads “(1m) Except as provided in sub. (2m), the following actions shall be commenced within 3 years or be barred:” and § 893.54(1m)(b) reads “(b) An action brought to recover damages for death caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of another.” Wis. Stat. § 893.54(2m) reads “(2m) An action brought to recover damages for death caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another and arising from an accident involving a motor vehicle shall be commenced within 2 years after the cause of action accrues or be barred.” This field holds a single number, so we publish the 2-year period: it is the one that governs motor-vehicle deaths, and telling a claimant 3 years when the real deadline is 2 is the error that costs a claim. If the death did not involve a motor vehicle, you may have the full 3 years. Confirm which period applies with a Wisconsin attorney.
Wis. Stat. § 893.54(2m)·Last reviewed 2026-07-29
Open the wrongful death calculatorWis. Stat. § 102.17(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorWis. Stat. § 893.54·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the slip and fall calculatorWisconsin against the rest of the country
Every count below is read from our state-law data across all 51 jurisdictions, so it moves when the data does. What you will not find here is an average settlement figure: the only one we could compute is a model, and a model presented as a measurement is not a fact.
- 39 of the 51 jurisdictions we track pay 66.67% of the wage, the most common rate, and Wisconsin is one of them. It applies the rate to gross wages, as 47 of the 51 do; the rest use after-tax earnings.
- Of the 34 jurisdictions with a verified maximum weekly benefit in our data, Wisconsin's $1,375 is the 16th highest, and they run from $800 in Georgia to $2,431 in Iowa. Each state resets its maximum on its own date, so these are the figures our data holds rather than one day's.
- Wisconsin's 2 years to file is the same as the most common deadline in the country, which 24 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 4 years.
- In 44 of the 51 jurisdictions, the statute we read provides for settling or commuting a claim to a lump sum on the terms it states; in 4 it allows one only in the cases it names; and for 3 we could not read an official copy. Wisconsin is in the first group.
Comparisons are drawn from the rules that set a benefit, not from closed-claim data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology
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Every document behind our workers' compensation figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our Workers' Compensation research sources page.